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Title: The National geographic magazine
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: Washington : National Geographic Society
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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heirmightier eruptions, by the direction ofthe trade winds and upper air currents,and by tornado-like swirls in the greatlydisturbed atmosphere. The vastness ofthe area on which the ejected materialfell is indicated by the fall of dust onBarbados, Trinidad, and on ships 275miles southeast of St Vincent. Observations reported by E. O. Hovey .show that, contrary to earlier accounts,written in part by myself, coarse materialfell in St Pierre. The riddling of boilerplates one-fourth inch thick, in thenorthern portion of the stricken city, bystone shot against them from MontPelee, is evidence that the hurricanes ofsteam charged with hot dust, whichswept down from that volcano on May 8or May 20, and perhaps during latereruptions, were accompanied by a bom-bardment of stones, no doubt hot, whichwere as deadly as solid shot fired froma cannon. Causes of Death.—Respecting the gen-eral cause of death in St Pierre, the re-ports of various observers differ morewidely than in connection with anv
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